Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. moves to quash a subpoena directed to it and served upon its American subsidiary, Electric & Musical Industries (U.S.) Ltd. It claims that it is he not within the jurisdiction of this Court because it is not present in this country. It further contends that E.M.I. (U.S.) is not its agent and that service upon E.M.I. therefore cannot be made through the officers of E.M.I. (U.S.). The motion is denied.

The subpoena was issued in aid of a current grand jury investigation of possible violations of the anti-trust laws through cartel activities in the radio-television industry.

Such a subpoena may run to any district in the United States. Clayton Act § 13, 38 Stat. 736, 15 U.S.C.A. § 23. Service must be made by delivering a copy thereof to the person named. Fed.R.Civ.P., Rule 45(c), 28 U.S.C.A.; Fed.R.Cr.P., Rule 17, 18 U.S.C.A. In the absence of any rule to the contrary, service upon a corporation may be made by delivering a copy of the subpoena to an officer or a managing or general agent of the corporation named. See Fed.R.Civ.P., Rule 4(d). This agent may be an individual, a partnership, or another corporation. United States v. United States Alkali Export Association, Inc. (I.C.I. case), Civ. No. 24-464, S.D.N.Y., July 16, 1946 (Unreported opinion, p. 8); United States v. Watchmakers of Switzerland Information Center, D.C.S.D.N.Y., 133 F.Supp. 40, 46.

Like other process issued pursuant to the anti-trust statutes, a subpoena may be served only in a district in which the person named is 'found'. Section 12 of the Clayton Act (38 Stat. 736; 15 U.S.C.A. § 22) provides:

'Any suit, action, or proceeding under the antitrust laws against a corporation may be brought not only in the judicial district whereof it is an inhabitant, but also in any district wherein it may be found or transacts business; and all process in such cases may be served in the district of which it is an inhabitant, or wherever it may be found'.

Accordingly, the question is whether E.M.I.'s activities within this district are sufficient to sustain service here, and, if they are, whether E.M.I. (U.S.) Ltd. is a proper agent upon which to effect service.

E.M.I. is a British corporation. It has subsidiaries in twenty-four countries. It is a manufacturer of (1) gramophone records; (2) domestic electronics, including radio, television, gramophones, household appliances, dictating and tape machines, relay and sound amplification equipment; and, (3) electronic capital equipment, that is, electronic equipment for industry and commerce, such as television transmitting equipment, electronic business machines, and other equipment used by aircraft and as aids to navigation.

With respect to the United States, E.M.I.'s activities are as follows:

1. Radio and television patents. It holds United States patent upon apparatus for radio and television. It has granted to Radio Corporation of America a non-exclusive license and the right to grant non-exclusive licenses to others with respect to these United States patents in return for a similar grant by R.C.A. with respect to patents held by it outside the United States, Canada and Australasia.

2. Gramophone records. E.M.I. is the largest producer of gramophone records in the world. As stated in its 1956 annual report, it is 'strongly represented' in the United States by two subsidiaries: Capitol Records, Inc., and E.M.I. (U.S.) Ltd.

Capitol is a California corporation. It is one of the largest producers of records in the United States. In 1954 E.M.I. acquired 96.4% of its common stock. Three of its nine directors are now officers or directors of E.M.I. but there has been no change in its management.

The second United States subsidiary is E.M.I. (U.S.) Ltd., a New York corporation, which concentrates upon the classical field in which its sales have become the fourth largest in the United States. It was organized in 1953. It became the licensee of E.M.I.'s listings under the Columbia label, replacing Columbia Recording Corporation, another American corporation which had enjoyed this position in prior years.
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Next year it is expected to gain similar rights with respect to E.M.I.'s other classical label, His Master's Voice, which since 1901 has been licensed to Victor (now RCA-Victor). The development of E.M.I. (U.S.) Ltd. was apparently part of a larger plan by which E.M.I. decided to depend upon its own sales organizations for the exploitation of the United States market, rather that upon its former contractual arrangements with RCA-Victor and Columbia.
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It is apparently underset by a policy of sharpened competition with RCA-Victor which apparently has invaded the European field.
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E.M.I. (U.S.) Ltd. was organized pursuant to an agreement with a former independent record producer, Dario Soria, who became its president. E.M.I. financed to new company, holds all of its preferred stock and all of its voting ordinary stock. Soria has a twenty-five percent equity interest represented by non-voting stock which he must offer to E.M.I. before selling or encumbering. Of the five man board of directors, three are officers or directors of E.M.I.; two are Americans, including Soria. Soria states that he has in large part taken over his own pre-existing organization. His management of the American company is substantially without interference by the parent.

It is my conclusion that under the holding of United States v. Scophony Corp., 333 U.S. 759, 68 S. Ct. 855, 92 L. Ed. 1091, E.M.I.'s activities in this district are ...

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